Re: non-optional updates
Accidental downvote due to fumblefingers. Sorry.
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Hadn't thought about iTunes for years.
I remember having to download it to use an iPod that I had been given and the first thing it did was rename some music files without asking for permission.
There was apparently some switch in the settings for 'do not make changes to user files without asking' , but I didn't know that at the time .
Anyhoo, it became obvious that Apple had spent a great deal of time and effort to make it as difficult as possible to copy data to and from a storage device so I threw it in the bin and deleted iTunes.
Ah, memories.
Use of industry standard website coding techniques would stop these attacks.
Pretty hard to download someone's bitcoin wallet when every request is intercepted and redirected and requires the execution of 3Gb of javascript, solving of 12 Captchas, consenting to tracking and watching 20 minutes of advertising before timing out and making you start again.
I find it strange that IPV4 has been running out of addresses for twenty years, has run out of addresses ten years ago, and now bitter infighting on a global scale for this scarce resource which is vital for commerce has pushed the price up to an eye-watering $30.
Really?
$30 when streaming companies want $5 for a one-time viewing of a heavily compressed SD resolution version of a fifty year old B movie that is in the dvd bargain bucket at the supermarket?
I disagree. We should not throw away the intarwebz and replace them with a more secure system, we should throw away all the things that are using the intarwebz for purposes which require security and re-implement them on some other, secure, platform.
We know not to trust plain text such as "Nobody needs to pay their taxes this year - Official Statement From IRS", because any random idiot can type it (and did, just now).
We know not to trust audio because that also can be faked.
We know not to trust photographs because photoshop.
CGI and deepfakes are just another reason to distrust images/video.
What is the problem?
is the way he thinks big companies will have an advantage because they can pay for humans to create better training data.
He is technically correct, but big companies also can pay humans to do better quality control, can pay for safer and less polluting processes, can pay for equipment repair, living wages, research etc.
A training set that is massively flawed, but a dollar cheaper to produce than a "pure" data set, will be the one that is used.
When the ordinary non-technical moron wants a computer to do something for them, they cannot use a CLI because that would involve knowing anything and they cannot use a GUI because even that would involve some level of understanding of the problem to be solved.
The solution is an AI voice recognition system. The user can say "How can I, like, make my company more profitable and stuff while putting and end to war and hunger and all the bad things and also have bikini models find me attractive? The AI will then confidently respond with whatever its sponsors are pushing that day.
Well, you could actually look at the prints from your Olympus without being nagged to create an account and having to seperately opt-out of 10 billion cookies from 10 billion intrusive jerks and without having to fight off banners and adverts sliding over the content from all angles. Also without having to pay for the bandwidth and processing of all those annoyances.
...I have had a game-changeing radical idea! How about having a REMOVABLE memory device, so you would just need to pull that out and you would have all your pictures, downloads, apps and everything safe. I am thinking of something like a USB stick, but you could probably make it even smaller.
Video may show whether the pedestrian was visible to the Cruise before the alleged hit-and-run driver collided with the pedestrian.
Did the Cruise note that a pedestrian was in the road?
Did it assume that the pedestrian would not move into the path of the Cruise?
Did it 'know' the hit-and-run driver was going to collide with the pedestrian but assume that it was somebody elses problem because its own lane was clear at that point?
Since the financial AI will be trained on historical trading records which are driven by uninformed and unscrupulous humans making wild assumptions and valuations based upon data pulled from their asses, the AI will be able to make more wild assumptions per second and pull more random numbers out of its electronic ass much faster.